Most of the surviving information we have about Norse mythology and legendary Viking history was written by Snorri Sturluson, ...

NPR readers of different belief systems share the poignant rituals that make them feel close to their spirituality. For some, ...

The thing with vising Pagan sites in Cornwall is that it’s quite hard to pin down what ‘Pagan’ actually means. Pagan and specifically Celtic religious sites were often based in sacred groves ...

As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...

Elected officials and LiveOnNY staff also heard from organ donor advocates and recipients, including Queens native Wajana Vallecillo Pagan, who celebrated the life of her mother Milagros Pagan ...

Each of their seminal works — Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Bronze, Their Eyes Were Watching God and Beloved—became catalysts for important conversations that centered Black ...

Instead of defaulting to the notifications on my phone, poetry has inspired me to begin the day in a different way. By Charley Locke Most mornings, as soon as I wake up, I feel the pull of my phone.

Last week in Manhattan attention was called to a 15th anniversary, one which was not given over exclusively to the commemoration of bygones, but on the contrary crowded with hopes for the future.

He didn’t read book reviews—or so he claimed—and he didn’t write them, preferring instead to let his poems find their natural audience, which turned out to be a wide one. He mocked ...

The sensuous Pagan Poem came soon after, inspired by the sorcerous incantations Virgil put in the mouth of a Thessalian girl to draw her truant lover home. The Pagan Poem was played by Manhattan ...

But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened. Then again, what we think of as intuition ...

The poets talk about “A Century of Poetry in The New Yorker.” The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane ...